Nutritional value of timothy haylage in Icelandic horses

Livestock Science

Volumn 113, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 202-208

  Ragnarsson, Sveinn ^a   Lindberg, Jan Erik ^b  

^a HÓLAR UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Iceland)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Digestibility; Haylage; Icelandic horses; Timothy

Indexed keywords

EQUIDAE; PHLEUM PRATENSE;

EID: 37549060386     PISSN: 18711413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2007.03.010     Document Type: Article

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